Oscar Levant Quotes

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

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• Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • High
  • Earth
  • Respect

• It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Play
  • Write
  • Right

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• With publicity comes humiliation.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Humiliation
  • Publicity

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
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  • American
  • Black

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
  • Studying

• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • May
  • Envy

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • May

• I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • House
  • California

• I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Fear

• When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

  

  James McCartney
  • Mother
  • Dark
  • Period

• There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • God
  • Children
  • House

• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
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